Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

Nia, Okelia, and Shanti are triplets who live in Kinshasa. Okelia is different from her sisters because she has albinism. The three sisters are so...

Between Belgian colonial archives and images shot in the present, the violence of a dehumanizing economic system is revealed through the story of a...

Ndoko, a hard-headed little girl, has disobeyed her mother once again. Then she learns that her baby brother has been abducted by a cannibal monster....

Documentary portrait of a group of artists and creatives living in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. "We also exist!"

Torn from childhood to become a soldier, Alain reveals the invisible scars of war and his struggle to find his place in a world that has cast him...

Set in the ruins of a former Unilever plantation in Lusanga, this psychotronic film stages a speculative arrival: a UFO crashes, and an astronaut...

Two young rocket engineers, Nestor and Isaac, struggle against the economic and political realities of their country. Propelled by the memory of past...

"Rêve de chien", an animated short film by Jourdain Kielukusu Izu Di Do, was made in Kinshasa between 2012 and 2013, during the...

A short documentary about Roger Jamar, the pioneer of African animated film, made by renowned Congolese animator Jean-Michel Kibushi who also oversaw...

Torn from childhood to become a soldier, Alain reveals the invisible scars of war and his struggle to find his place in a world that has cast him...

"C'est urgent!", an animated short film by Armel Pululu, was made in Kinshasa between 2012 and 2013, during the Afriqu'Anim'Action project led by the...

Docufiction exploring the colonial gaze

Alone on her bed, Bénédicte, a thirty-year-old woman, listens religiously to the tube ZERO by Papa Wemba - dead, recently on the FEMUA...

An artist runs out of paint days before an exhibition. Desperate for money, he decides to run a hustle: he swaps his brushes for a Bible and heads to...

A shoeshine boy observes the rhythmic passing of people's curious shoes.

David Shongo’s 'Café Kuba - Who Dared to Awaken the Dead Memory' is a cinematic and sonic experience that captures the voices of...

A dozen or so young percussionists bring music to Barumbu, a poor neighbourhood of Kinshasa. They are the Beta Mbonda, former members of the Kuluna...